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Health status of the red-billed tropicbird ( Phaethon aethereus ) determined by hematology, biochemistry, blood gases, and physical examination313.92 kB
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Health status of the red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) determined by hematology, biochemistry, blood gases, and physical examination
PeerJ, Vol.11, pp.1-14
2023
Abstract
The red-billed tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, is a species of seabird native to the Galápagos archipelago, and widely distributed across the neotropics. General health, blood chemistry, and haematology parameters have not been published for this species. Blood analyses were performed on samples drawn from 51 clinically healthy red-billed tropicbirds captured from their burrows at Islote Pitt on San Cristóbal Island in July, 2016 (21) and Daphne Major Island in June, 2017 (30). In the field, a point of care blood analyser (iSTAT) was used to obtain results for HCO3-, pH, pCO2, pO2, TCO2, iCa, Na, K, Cl, Hb, HCT, anion gap, creatinine, glucose and urea nitrogen. Additionally, a portable Lactate PlusTM analyser was used to measure blood lactate, and blood smears were also created in situ. The blood slides were used to estimate leukocyte counts and 100-cell differentials. Alongside these biochemistry and haematology parameters, average heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature and scaled mass index (calculated from weight and a body measurement) were compared to determine the standard measurements for a healthy individual. The baseline data, and reference intervals reported in this paper are essential to detecting changes in the health of red-billed tropicbirds in the future.
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- Title
- Health status of the red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) determined by hematology, biochemistry, blood gases, and physical examination
- Authors
- Alice Skehel (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringCatalina Ulloa (Author) - Universidad San Francisco de QuitoDiane Deresienski (Author) - North Carolina State UniversityCristina Regalado (Author) - Universidad San Francisco de QuitoJuan Pablo Muñoz-Pérez (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringJuan Augusto Garcia (Author) - Galapagos (Netherlands)Britta Denise Hardesty (Author) - University of TasmaniaRonald K. Passingham (Author) - North Carolina State UniversityJason Steve Castañeda (Author) - Galapagos (Netherlands)Gregory A. Lewbart (Corresponding Author) - Universidad San Francisco de QuitoCarlos A. Valle (Author) - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
- Publication details
- PeerJ, Vol.11, pp.1-14
- Publisher
- PeerJ, Ltd.
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.7717/peerj.15713
- ISSN
- 2167-8359
- Copyright note
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Grant note
- Heska Corporation Galápagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences (GAIAS) Galápagos Science Center-USFQ
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99744998202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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